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Document crashes on X when build with GCC and GNU ld.

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Eli Zaretskii 2004-02-16 18:32:18 +00:00
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@ -58,6 +58,20 @@ xrealloc(). Relinking the application (by deleting src/temacs and
running make) will solve the problem. It appears to be caused by some
problems with the unexec code and its interaction with libSystem.B.
* Emacs crashes with SIGSEGV on Solaris in XtInitializeWidgetClass
It crashes on X, but runs fine when called with option "-nw".
This has been observed when emacs is linked with GNU ld instead of
Solaris ld. To check which ld is used by gcc add "-V" to
TEMACS_LDFLAGS in src/Makefile. Alternatively the executable size may
be used as an indication of which linker is used. The size is
approximately 15M when linked with solaris ld compared to 9M when
linked with GNU ld.
The fix is to reconfigure/install gcc, making sure that the SUN linker
is used.
* Characters from the mule-unicode charsets aren't displayed under X.
XFree86 4 contains many fonts in iso10646-1 encoding which have